I Think We're Alone Now
Giles Coren Has No Idea
The Times
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Giles and Esther make their way through this week's papers; from Tiffany's and snooker to covid statistics and fat police. Esther gives Giles a grammar lesson schooling him in one of her favourite of topics - diamonds. Oh...and Giles sings!!!
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| 0:00.0 | Are you an absolutely huge fomter or a zoom-in or perhaps you're an arm stretched out like a zombie |
| 0:06.3 | when holding a newspaper or a holds a book so close you might as well be kissing it. |
| 0:11.6 | Er, at SpexAvers, we get it. You don't want to admit it's time to become a glasses wearer. |
| 0:18.0 | That's okay. We're ready to see you whenever you're ready to see properly. |
| 0:22.3 | Book an iTest at spexavers.co.uk so you can see clearer. Er, okay, we'll stop with the |
| 0:29.1 | ears now. |
| 0:59.5 | I cut it out, I took it off the side of my thing. It made me laugh every day. |
| 1:03.2 | Or funny is it a walker plummetes to death from high cliff. |
| 1:06.5 | Exactly, yeah. |
| 1:07.4 | That's his main name is Walker. Feel free to go back in a laugh. |
| 1:29.1 | I'm waiting for you. |
| 1:38.6 | That's a cat log, is that cat log? |
| 1:39.8 | Yeah, I'm waiting for you. That's already one I've lost in the chat. |
| 1:41.2 | What's the letter? |
| 1:41.7 | Yeah, who's it? |
| 1:42.4 | No, that sounds so shit. |
| 1:45.2 | Oh, a letter. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah, that's like in the arches. |
| 1:47.2 | I'll just quickly have some of my drink. |
| 1:50.5 | Oh, is that a letter? |
| 1:52.0 | I'm going to do some work now. |
| 1:55.1 | I wasn't sure whether we should, um, okay. |
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